Enterprise Architecture Framework Maps All Of The Software Development Process Within The Enterprise

While this is a good opportunity to build a business and has a lot of potential Ralph has hired an Enterprise Architecture Consultant to provide a solid Business Model which will allow for more consistency and will provide a foundation for more growth in the market. The Consultant will research the company, how it currently operates and will identify areas where business process standardization would provide benefits to the organization.

1.In your opinion, what are three main topics of chapter one? How do you know if you have a good foundation?

Enterprise Architecture is an all-inclusive approach to managing the complexity of IT from a business viewpoint. A framework is used to help describe how to create and use an EA, in a manner that delivers business benefit in a cost - effective way. Each framework has a different approach to adding value to the business. These criteria will identify the ways an enterprise architecture framework adds business value, how adaptability and flexibility effect the overall adoption of an enterprise architecture framework, how the deliverables contribute to the success of an enterprise architecture, how does each framework take a strategic approach to reduce complexity of enterprise architecture, and how the framework encompasses the Software Development Lifecycle.

While TUFS should streamline the guaranteeing process and deliver new online abilities, it was created by IT with zero input which results in IT vision of frame work. Organization must stand on the responsibility for not participating in growth phase and the assumptions that was kept on the project was not full filled by project, and the steps has to be taken for the improvement.

A number of EA frameworks exist in the industry with the goal of addressing the basic challenge of assessing, aligning, and organizing business objectives with technical requirements and strategies. Examples include the Zachman Enterprise Framework, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), OMB Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and The Gartner Methodology (formerly the Meta Framework).

This information is easier to digest than the concept of EA components. However, the concepts are still important to the process and the chapter provides models for organizations as well as roles contained with a given enterprise, which helps determine the acceptance and success of an EA endeavor.

Enterprise architecture (EA) is the definition and representation of a high-level view of an enterprise‘s business processes and IT systems, their interrelationships, and the extent to which these processes and systems are shared by different parts of the enterprise. The primary goal of EA is to define the desirable future state of the organisation‘s business processes and IT systems (often referred to as the ―to-be‖ or target architecture) and to provide a roadmap for achieving this target from the current state (―as-is‖ or baseline architecture) [Zachman, n.d.]. Two key components of EA are the planning process (definition‖), and the direct and

Enterprise Architecture is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of the organization. The intent of Enterprise Architecture is to determine how an organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. Enterprise Architecture is management and technology practice devoted to improve the performance of enterprise by enabling them to see themselves in terms of a holistic and integrated view of their strategic direction, business practices, information flows and technology resources. It is a rigorous approach for describing the structure of an enterprise. A well-managed Enterprise Architecture results in an effective enterprise.

As organizations become larger, operations management become bigger and more cumbersome, hence the need for an enterprise architecture framework that can describe the underlying infrastructure, providing the groundwork for the hardware, software, networks and people to work2.

In this research paper, we will analyze look at the context of enterprise architecture, the history of enterprise architecture, and we will look at two popular enterprise architectures, the Zachman framework and TOGAF.

Enterprise Architecture is a relatively new field which has, in recent years, firmly implanted itself as an increasingly integral facet within information technology (IT) companies. It is meant to provide structure to the company’s IT department through strategic organization of the department’s assets. More specifically, the concept is meant to manage an enterprise’s IT resources in an effort to streamline and organize the laborious process associated with large-scale IT projects and the chaotic environment they foment (Harrell, 2011, p. xii). This is done through a streamlining process that “establishes the organization-wide roadmap to achieve an organization’s mission through optimal performance of its core business processes within an efficient [IT] environment” (Schekkermann, 2006, p. i). The practice effectively builds a schematic for the company and its procedures as it strives to fulfill its operational endeavors.

Different software development processes have software architecture as a part of the process Rational unified process Spiral development method Agile development method Evolutionary rapid development

In today’s complex settings, executives surely understand the need of having IT governance within their firms. With a belief that fusion between IT and business can be achieved through the introduction of IT governance and the productivity paradox problem is solved by a well established IT governance with efficient IT management. However, the success rate is based on the adequateness of the governance and how well it suits that specific organization’s internal and external environments. Despite being quite a new discipline, IT governance has numbers of structure, process, framework (Webb et al., 2006). Moreover, its explanation impedes the clear acknowledgement and is commonly mistaken for the concept of Enterprise Architect (EA),

Jaap Schekkerman, the founder of IFEAD’s, developed the Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF) in the early 2000’s. The E2AF is a communication framework that is a blended framework which takes standards from IEEE 1471, describes views and viewpoints of an architecture from a software-intensive system and elements of FEAF and TOGAF and a matrix structure similar to Zachman. E2AF is an architecture program that describes subjects and relations with all key stakeholders. It helps address the topics and process steps needed to reach an organizations overall goals and objectives (Schekkerman, 2006).

Abstract: Software architecture is important because of communication among stakeholders, Design decisions for understanding software, transferable design of a system. Software architecture represents a common design of a system that most if not all of the system 's stakeholders can use as a basis for mutual understanding, negotiation, agreement, and communication. Software architecture manifests the earliest design decisions about a system, and these early bindings carry weight .It is also the earliest point at which design decisions governing the system to be built can be analyzed. Software architecture constitutes a relatively small, intellectually understandable model for how a system is structured and how its elements work together, and this model is transferable across systems. There are different types of architectural styles: Distributed architecture, data flow architecture, implicit asynchronous architecture, data centered architecture, hierarchical architecture and interaction oriented architecture. This paper compares all the architectural styles and aspects of comparison are category, styles, advantages, disadvantages, examples.